Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.